(1) Any person who willfully conceals, cancels, defaces, obliterates, or damages the advance directive of another without the grantor's consent or who falsifie s or forges a revocation of the advance directive of another, thereby causing life -prolonging treatment to be utilized in contravention of the previously expressed intent of the patient shall be civilly liable. (2) Any person who falsifies or forges the ad vance directive of another, or willfully conceals or withholds personal knowledge of the revocation of an advance directive, with the intent to cause a withholding or withdrawal of life -prolonging treatment, contrary to the wishes of the grantor, and there by causes life-prolonging treatment to be withheld or withdrawn and death to be hastened, shall be guilty of a Class B felony.
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